A Couple Clarifications
I have two exams in the next week, but I wanted to make a couple quick clarifications based on some commentary I’ve received since my post, and Erin’s guest post, went up. First, while I am obviously...
View ArticleThe Argument from Personal Incredulity
Occasionally, somewhere within a debate, someone attempts to make a point in this form: “There’s no way that could be the case.” It was pointed out to me while reading about evolutionary biology. The...
View ArticleThe Republic of Letters
The Republic of Letters “is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th century in Europe and America. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of Age of Enlightenment.”...
View ArticleAs Curators
“Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” Eric Schmidt, CEO Google I can’t speak for Schmidt’s source on this one, but I think the point...
View ArticlePerspective on Employee Investments
One of the most obvious responses to an economic downturn (or even a drop in sales), for an organization, is to weather the storm by cutting costs. In the U.K., a survey found that half of large...
View ArticleEven a Broken Watch
In my last post, I wrote about hard-to-measure investments in employees. My concern was that, because of the hard-to-measure characteristic, such investments may get underemphasized. I used training as...
View ArticleSpans of Control
A couple thoughts about team size, or span of control: I started a career-resembling job almost four years ago. Since then, I’ve worked on six different teams (For the record, I’ve only changed jobs...
View ArticleAn Argument for Renewal, Part II
On February 11, I laid out an argument from pragmatism for workplace renewal: Basically, that any entitlement mentality of new employees is irrelevant, and organizations still need to attract and...
View ArticleOpen Government
A while back, a handful of public servants, myself included, were at a speaker event about fostering social entrepreneurship in Canada. This topic spanned civil society, business, and government, and...
View ArticleThe World Needs Us To Stop Being Boring
One of my colleagues is a project manager who codes apps in her spare time. Another is an engineer that performs slam poetry at night. One friend, whose government job is in flux, writes a...
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